To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.

He has erected a multitude of new offices, and sent hither swarms of officers to harass our people and eat out their substance.

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].